With the principle of equality conceded, the Germans returned to Geneva. Behind Schleicher, however, was a more aggressive cohort of generals, including Werner von Blomberg, who demanded an open resort to unilateral rearmament. Furthermore, the practical problem of rearmament imposed its own timetable. With the Depression taking its toll on the German engineering industry, it seemed that unless substantial government funds were soon forthcoming, the industrial capacity on which rearmament ultimately depended might soon cease to exist.95 It was with this in mind that General Schleicher’s
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